[CASL-L] Wanted to share this...anyone else see the NYT article??

[Audra Good]

We are going back to carts although I feel like my school mostly has been
even though the kids devices are assigned to them they only go home for one
math program grades 2-5 but most schools don’t send them home

K iPads are in carts but I think that’s moving to Chromebooks next year but
they want to do Chromebooks next year for k but again only in school carts.
I think it’s not even necessary for k. I teach them less and less tech
every year. I’d like 2-5 to still have their devices.

This book sounds interesting!

On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 8:19 PM Barbara Johnson <bajohnson at colchesterct.org>
wrote:

> Laura,
> Book is in my bag for the airplane!
>
>
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> On Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 3:49 PM Laura Hedenberg <
> lhedenberg at barkhamstedschool.org> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone else
>> Read The Digital Delusion book?  Excellent read. Would make a great book
>> discussion!!
>>
>> I tried to get my super to not buy Chromebooks for students next year…go
>> back to carts and not 1:1.
>>
>> Maybe next year.
>>
>> Laura
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Apr 13, 2026, at 11:30 AM, Barbara Johnson <bajohnson at colchesterct.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> We are making a move in Colchester next year: no Chromebook home for
>> grade 6, only home Tu-Th for gr 7, and a "Chromebook curfew" for grade 8
>> (Chromebook can't be logged into fro 10pm-5am)
>> Happy to discuss!
>> B
>> *Barbara Johnson*
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>> Colchester Public Schools
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>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 10:26 AM Melissa Thom via CASL-L <casl-l at mylist.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Good Morning,
>>>
>>> I have been having so many conversations with other educators about how
>>> it would be so nice to have more of a balance between tech and analog
>>> teaching and learning.
>>>
>>> This was a recent article about reducing chromebooks in schools that was
>>> very timely.
>>>
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